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Dolan, Mairead; Whitworth, Helen – Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 2013
There is little literature on childhood sexual abuse in women seen by forensic services. A cohort of 225 cases of women seen by forensic services in a medium secure unit in the UK were examined, and childhood sexual abuse and non-childhood sexual abuse cases were compared. Over half the sample had a history of childhood sexual abuse, and 5.6% of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sexual Abuse, Child Abuse, Comparative Analysis
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Patrick, Steven; Marsh, Robert – Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 2009
In the initial analysis of data from a random sample of all those charged with child sexual abuse in Idaho over a 13-year period, only one predictive variable was found that related to recidivism of those convicted. Variables such as ethnicity, relationship, gender, and age differences did not show a significant or even large association with…
Descriptors: Recidivism, Sexual Abuse, Child Abuse, Predictor Variables